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Winston-Salem resident Horace Barrett volunteered for military service as a paratrooper, parachuted into France on D-Day, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Along the way, he was awarded four Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars before returning home. Today Barrett celebrates his 100th birthday.
They were young, bold and accomplished at warfare’s killing. But for one of the legendary Chipilly Six, an enemy became simply a man with family photos.
Well before taking the world stage as wartime British prime minister, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was an early and key proponent of tanks.
Today in 1066, the Duke of Normandy, later known as William the Conqueror, pushed away from the silty shoreline of the Somme River and set sail, beginning the Norman invasion and eventual conquest of England. His army was composed of soldiers from Normandy (speaking Norman French), Brittany (speaking Celtic Breton), Flanders (speaking a combination of Flemish, Dutch, and Old French), and French (also speaking Old French).
The grass is green and neatly mowed today on the Battle of the Somme|Somme Battlefield. The trench warfare|trenches are clean and dry, with smooth roun...